Salvador DALÍ poses with his "Retrospective Bust of a Woman".
True to his surrealist stagings, Dalí poses, seated at a desk, in front of his object sculpture " Retrospective Bust of a Woman ".
2.500€
True to his surrealist stagings, Dalí poses, seated at a desk, in front of his object sculpture " Retrospective Bust of a Woman ".
2.500€
Salvador Dalí (1904.1989)
Original photograph.
Vintage silver gelatin print depicting Dalí in his suite at the Hôtel Meurice in Paris. Circa 1970.
True to his surrealist stagings, Dalí poses, seated at a desk, in front of his object sculpture " Retrospective Bust of a Woman ".
To his left, a hyperrealistic sculpture by the American artist John de Andrea; to his right, realism in the flesh: a Spanish model named Albina.
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Photographer: Manuel Litran. Handwritten annotations on the back and collector's stamp.
Size: 30 x 40 cm.
Buste de femme rétrospective was first presented at the Pierre Colle gallery in Paris in June 1933, then at the Salon des Surindépendants in October of the same year under a second title: L'abondance.
In this work, Dalí uses an assemblage symptomatic of his Surrealist period of the 1930s: an inkwell with figures from Millet's Angelus, a baguette, a zoetrope, and ears of corn, all affixed to a porcelain bust on which the artist has painted ants. Originally, this bust was probably a wig stand.